What Determines Vehicle Electric Batteries To Fail

By Expert Author: Taalib Durden

A body that stocks energy to be used for future is called battery. The actual mechanism of a battery is the conversion of chemical energy into electricity by making use of a galvanic cell. At times the process can also involve the use of more than one galvanic cell. Batteries are the storing points of electric energy. With the alteration of the chemicals in the battery, electrical energy is radiated and stored but never produced. There is a continuous recurrence of the mentioned process in case of rechargeable batteries. However, a lead acid battery works with lead oxide as positive and pure lead as negative. Be it automobile batteries, inverter batteries or an UPS battery, the worth lies in the supply of power.

Determining battery failure :
On turning the ignition of your vehicle on, if you hear the engine to make a sound then probably that might not be the case of battery failure but if on putting the start on, there is no action that your vehicle does, then of course there has been some problem with the battery which could be expected to come back to life through a process of jump starting.

Getting the battery to work through jump starting :

• Keep the jumper cables without any damage at hand
• Both the vehicles whose batteries are involved in the process should be turned off
• The battery to be used to jump start as well as the dead battery should have the same voltage
• Both of the vehicles should not be in any way connected to each other
• The gears of both the vehicles should be in neutral

The steps to be followed for jump starting :

• Positive end of the living battery is to be connected to the positive end of the died out battery
• One end of the additional cable is to be connected to the negative end of the living battery
• This additional cable should be plugged somewhere away from the battery perhaps to the engine
• All the cables must be kept aloof from any kind of vehicle movement
• Once the vehicle is started the cables should be taken out possibly in the order of last to first i.e. starting from the last one attached to the engine

If this whole process is not good enough to run your car then all you need is an expert’s help. In a situation like this it is better to avail the emergency services extended by the auto battery manufacturers now days. Many of the manufacturers of two and four wheeler batteries in India have introduced emergency services that would help you come out of any kind of auto electrical urgency, even if that is a battery failure. With time automotive battery service has gone through a lot of improvement that are beneficial to commoners. Few battery manufacturers even give you the facility of free battery maintenance. Battery is the backbone of your vehicle so proper battery handling becomes a mandate for each of us. More importantly when the vehicle is a truck, it involves extra care. Truck batteries are subjected to frequent failure because of deep discharge. However, every object that’s led by a battery needs extra care. Just as auto batteries, UPS or inverter batteries also tend to wane with time. As a result even they demand sufficient maintenance in order to last longer.